Just the mere fact that you stated this in an open forum will have you shunned by many at their fear mongering dinner table. The vacuum analogy is a good one, and something that I think many people who are absorbing hourly mainstream news media reports have or would have a hard time digesting.
I think it's very irresponsible for the director of the CDC to throw phrases like, "impending doom" out there, carelessly to millions of people who are looking for legit facts and discussion. We are only human, and there are contingents of people who take snippets like this and run with them, forcing additional fear and anxiety to brew within their psyche. There is no place for this kind of hyperbole fueled statement.